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We lost an Icon of America 40 years ago yesterday.

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June 13, 2019, 01:54 PM
YooperSigs
We lost an Icon of America 40 years ago yesterday.
Interesting related place:
Mercury, Nevada.
For those of you with Google Earth, a tour of the test site and Mercury is fascinating.


End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
June 13, 2019, 03:00 PM
Rey HRH
I could do a convincing “How ya doing,... pilgrim.”


"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
June 13, 2019, 03:49 PM
sig239dlehr
Just a heads up to all you Fans of The Duke. It must be John Wayne War Movies day on Turner Classic Movies. Flying Leathernecks is on right now, followed by Operation Pacific, then one of my Top 5 favorites of The Duke, Sands of Iwo Jima at 8:00 EDT. It's not a John Wayne movie but still a good view, Tora! Tora! Tora! comes on after that. I've got my afternoon and evening activities set now!
June 13, 2019, 05:15 PM
ChuckWall
Wayne's birthplace, Winterset, Iowa
This is the Place

Outside the Wayne Museum on Wayne Blvd.
Wayne Surveys his Street


Wayne Museum - Winterset, Iowa

This is the Place!

Maureen O'Hara at the dedication of the museum
Maureen ~ 1920-2015


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June 13, 2019, 08:57 PM
wolfe 21
Nothing against the man, but was never a fan. I liked the ones with Dean Martin well enough, but that's about it. Died 6 years before I was born, so it may be a generational thing too.


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June 13, 2019, 09:22 PM
ZSMICHAEL
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Nothing against the man, but was never a fan. I liked the ones with Dean Martin well enough, but that's about it. Died 6 years before I was born, so it may be a generational thing too.

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You would like Elton John Westerns I think. BTW it is generally considered bad form and impolite to critcize a thread that is essentially a tribute to an American icon. Maybe it is a generational thing.